
Strengthening Community Systems Advancing Human Rights
Who We Are
APCASO is an Asia-Pacific regional civil society network organisation that serves as a catalytic platform for advocacy and community systems strengthening for health, social justice, and human rights for key, vulnerable, and marginalised communities in Asia and the Pacific. We work with civil society and community-led organisational partners in Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, India, Japan, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam.
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News and Updates
Global Fund Updates on COVID 19
Meaningful Community Engagement in the COVID-19 Response Mechanism (C19RM) URGENT: The C19RM process at country level is...
People’s Vaccine Alliance Asia (PVA Asia) hosts virtual reality booth at the Primary Health Care (PHC) Forum in Jakarta
People's Vaccine Alliance (PVA) Asia, hosted by APCASO, has sponsored Center for Indonesia's Strategic Development...
Sri Lanka People’s Statement on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response (PPPR)
In Sri Lanka, our country partner, Diversity and Solidarity Trust (DAST), convened 20 participants mostly from civil...
The Community Engagement and Leadership in Pandemic Governance (CELG) Learning Hub is live!
Activists Coalition on TB – Asia-Pacific (ACT! AP) & APCASO as well as ACT Africa are undertaking the Community...
Mongolia’s Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) Task Force established, paving the way towards the establishment of the country’s first ever CLM Coordinating Committee
Following up our first Phase of the Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) Short-Term Assistance in Mongolia where we supported the...
A Community Toolkit on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response (PPPR)
The inequities which stained the world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic are painfully familiar. Outbreaks, epidemics,...
Cognitive Distortion and Mental Health among the Thai Elderly
From February to April 2023, three interns, Sathiravija "Earth" Heebthong, Chadaporn "Mew" Kaenchan, and Chalita "Mok"...